Adaptation to Life

Contents

Preface, 1995

Cast of Protagonists

Part One: The Study of Mental Health: Methods and Illustrations

Introduction

1. Mental Health

2. The Men of the Grant Study

3. How They Were Studied

4. Health Redifined

The Joyful Expression of Sex and of Anger

Part Two: Basic Styles of Adaptation

5. Adaptive Ego Mechanisms

A Heirarchy

6. Sublimination

7. Suppression, Anticipation, Altruism, and Humor

8. The Neurotic Defenses

9, The Immature Defenses

Part Three: Development Consequences of Adaptation. 10. The Adult Life Cycle

In One Culture11. Paths into Health

12. Successful Adjustment

13. The Child Is Father to the Man

14. Friends, Wives, and Children

Part Four: Concluions

15. The Maturing Ego

16. What is Mental Health

A Reprise

17. A Summary

References Cited

Appendix A: A Glossary of Defenses

Appendix B: The Interview Schedule

Appendix C: The Rating Scales